Collective Action, Competitiveness and E-Business Technologies

Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and Kaushalesh Lal
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Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka: Centre on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)

Chapter 7 in SMEs and New Technologies, 2006, pp 136-160 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses four important factors identified in our study that tend to be closely associated with the adoption of e-business: the potential business activities in which e-business technologies can be adopted, the availability of reliable and affordable ICT infrastructure, the potential gains expected from e-business and the impediments associated with e-business in a developing context. It is difficult to cover all these aspects in one study; we therefore focus on a limited number of objectives in this chapter, which are: factors that discriminate advanced users of e-business technologies from others; the impact that the perception of management has on the adoption of new technologies; impact of the competitive environment on the diffusion of e-business technologies; the role of the institutional environment in the growth of e-business; and the role of collective actions in the diffusion of e-business technologies.

Keywords: Collective Action; Foreign Firm; Innovative Activity; Sample Firm; Average Opinion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230625457_7

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